How do you know?
Every business runs on money movement, trusted people, and numbers believed. Frank Troutman spent thirty years asking one question of each: how do you actually know. He now brings that discipline to businesses of any size, in any industry, as a fractional executive — not just the entertainment sector where he built it.
30+
Years in banking operations and internal controls
$20B
Book of business overseen at City National Bank
100+
Person team built and led
Engaged fractionally, applied fully
Internal Controls
Closing the gaps where money moves and access is granted — before a fraud finds them, not after.
Advisory Services
An operator's read on your plans and your numbers — where the risk is hiding, and what it will actually take to close it.
Due Diligence
A systematic way of vetting the clients, vendors, and partners your business already trusts, so that trust is earned rather than assumed.
Compliance Readiness
AML, KYC, and BSA procedures built for your team to execute, not just filed in a binder for an examiner.
Operating Efficiency
Finding the waste sitting inside workflows and approval chains that were never designed — they just accumulated.
“The rigor of a bank, the attention of one person.”
On why controls built at $20 billion scale still fit a business of any size.
Thirty years, one discipline
Senior Vice President (1995 – 2026)
City National Bank (an RBC company)
Built and led the New York office of the bank's Entertainment Division; oversaw a $20 billion book of business and a team of more than 100.
AML, KYC & BSA compliance
Three decades building and running the procedures examiners test for — now applied outside banking, for businesses that need the same rigor without the bank.
Community
Supporter, Broadway Cares & the Entertainment Community Fund
Mentor, Independent Feature Project (IFP) Incubator
Past Board Chair, New York Musical Festival
Fraud moves fast. Controls have to move faster.
Ready to find out what you don't know yet?
A fractional engagement starts with a short conversation about where money moves, who has access, and what's never been tested. Reach out directly — every message gets a reply within one business day.